Patrick
Joseph
(Pat)
Ambrose
RAAF
Born in Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 20
in Rheinberg War Cemetery, Rheinberg, Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Biography
Aircraft Type: Halifax Serial number: LM 177 Radio call sign: MH – N Unit: ATTD 51 SQN RAF Summary: Halifax LM177 took off from RAF Snaith, Goole, Yorkshire, at 1742 hours on the night of 4/5th November 1944 detailed to bomb Bochum, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base.
Crew: RAF FO Reay G N Captain (Pilot) RAF Sgt D Thomson, (Flight Sergeant) RAF FO Arbon, H G (Navigator) RAF Flt Sgt I B Runciman, (Air Bomber) RAAF 424350 Flt Sgt P J Ambrose, (Wireless Operator Air) RAF Sgt J Hutchinson, (Mid Upper Gunner) RAF Sgt J F Maxwell, (Rear Gunner) A later report by a Missing Research & Enquiry team stated “ The aircraft crashed at Kelz approx. 8 miles south west of Cologne and all the crew were killed.” They are buried in the Rheinberg War Cemetery, Locality Kamp Lintfort, NordrheinWestfal, Germany. Rheinberg is 24kms north of Krefeld and 13kms south of Wesel.
Sources
https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1020135&c=WW2#R
https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/50372
https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RC09125.004/document/6019474.PDF
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Plt Off Alan Irvine Crain RAAF (KIA) Aus/415308 Sgt Victor Gledhill (KIA) RAFVR/1592716 Fg Off Trevor Rhys Davies (KIA) RAFVR/146291 (NCO:1264034, Gazette of 13th July 1943) WO Alexander Albert Braid RAAF (KIA) Aus/408562 WO A A Owen (POW) Flt Sgt Patrick Edward Thomas Tiernan RAAF (KIA) Aus/426711 Flt Sgt Alfred John Burns RAAF (KIA) Aus/424711